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SHAUNTI FELDHAHN is a ground-breaking social researcher, best selling author and popular speaker –but a wife and mom first. After receiving a graduate degree from Harvard, and working on Capitol Hill and Wall Street, Shaunti now uses her analytical skill to investigate the most important surprises about the most important people in our lives. She focuses on digging out the little changes that will make the biggest difference in our lives, relationships, families and workplace relationships.

Because each of Shaunti’s books is based on a multi-year, nationally-representative research study, they have become staples for both personal and professional relationships around the world, as well as for the therapists and clergy, corporate coaches and HR departments that serve families and organizations.

Where the “Only” books opened readers’ eyes to the most important and unseen needs of men and women, her next set of research projects beginning with the 2014 release of The Surprising Secrets of Highly Happy Marriages are investigating the often-unseen process of what makes relationships happy — the simple things that anyone can do to improve any relationship!

In The Good News About Marriage, a cousin book to Surprising Secrets and targeted to leaders, Shaunti presents groundbreaking research that reveals the shocking, inspiring, and incredibly important truth about the state of marriage today. Leaders who learn that, for example, that the actual average divorce rate has never come close to 50%, church attendance makes a huge difference, and most marriages are strong and happy for a lifetime, are well equipped to help replace a sense of futility with the hope that itself is essential for saving marriages.

On the professional-relationship side, Shaunti’s ground-breaking Perceptions research, as presented in The Male Factor (and its companion volume in the faith-based market, For Women Only in the Workplace) has proven extremely popular, and is especially groundbreaking in the women’s leadership arena. Through her corporate business, High Factor Results, she and her team of researchers and trainers have consulted with, conducted training, and spoken at dozens of the largest corporations and leadership organizations in the country

Shaunti speaks at 50 widely diverse events each year, from corporations to universities to church women’s conferences; youth retreats to leadership events, to military workshops, to stadium simulcasts, and (often with Jeff) marriage conferences. Check out her speaking topics and clips here.

Shaunti is a popular media commentator, and her findings are regularly featured in media as diverse as The Today Show and Focus on the Family, The New York Times and MomLife Today, Cosmopolitan magazine and Family Life radio.

Based out of Atlanta, Shaunti and Jeff have two middle-and-high-school-aged children who often travel with them, and two cats who think they are dogs. They enjoy every minute of living life at warp speed.